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audit-adversarial-input

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Analyze behavior under adversarial or extreme API inputs

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Analyze the cache for defects triggered by adversarial or extreme API inputs.

For each category, construct concrete inputs and trace the code path:

  1. Weight extremes: Integer.MAX_VALUE for every entry (overflow?), MAX_VALUE→1 delta (overflow?), 0 for all (unbounded growth?), inconsistent weigher (divergence?).

  2. Expiry extremes: Long.MAX_VALUE nanos (timer wheel overflow?), 0 or negative (infinite loops?), MAX→0 transitions, alternating durations.

  3. Maximum size extremes: Long.MAX_VALUE (arithmetic overflow?), maximumSize(0) (graceful degeneration?), maximumSize(1) (temporary oversize?).

  4. Key/value adversarial behavior: constant hashCode(0) (sketch degeneration?), slow equals() (lock hold explosion?), mutating hashCode (silent corruption?), huge values (allocation failure handling?).

  5. Concurrency extremes: 10K threads on same computeIfAbsent, puts exceeding maintenance throughput (backpressure?), refresh storms from short refreshAfterWrite.

  6. Frequency sketch saturation: all accesses to same key, all unique keys (reset cost?), counter overflow beyond 4-bit limit.

  7. Time extremes: nanoTime near Long.MAX_VALUE (wrap-around?), non-monotonic ticker, large time jumps (timer wheel handling?).

For each issue: state input values, trace computation, state whether it causes incorrect behavior / OOM / infinite loop / degraded performance / graceful handling.

Do not report issues requiring API contract violations (e.g., null keys) unless the violation is undetected and causes silent corruption.